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in this video I want to debunk 4 common
myths about flash Phil we're going to
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take my poor poor about flash and the
myth are that number one flash is
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complicated I have displayed a
calculator here because I hate
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absolutely this is coming from a former
accountant CPA
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I hate number to / can look natural
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your images are always gonna look like
they have been flashed completely false
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number three Westwood Dr the expensive
and requires too much beer it's true
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that flash but I agree does require more
gear I mean it's more geared to use but
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does require tons of year and the gear
isn't necessarily expensive either so
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that's completely false me going to
detail and report what is only needed in
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dark or when dealing with subjects in
shadows and that's completely false as
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well alright so let's start at the top
with flash is complicated ok we have
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ETTL we have TTL we have manual our
members as flash exposure power settings
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zoom inverse square what the heck is
that
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sync speed high speed sync I mean
there's a ton to learn about flash but
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it's only complicated when you try to
approach it all in one sitting when you
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try to approach it all at the same time
where you're doing off-camera flash an
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on-camera flash and studio strobes and
Pakistan when you try to get that whole
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thing just swallowed at one gulp it's
just not going to happen but we break it
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out and that's the reason again we're
using one single on camera flashes we
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can focus on just on-camera flash can
break down each one of these principles
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it's gonna create an incredibly
intuitive foundation for your lighting
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going forward we're basically after this
workshop whether you're using a studio
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strobe pockets probe whether using
off-camera on-camera flash these
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principles are now become simple and
easy to understand and they see all you
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have to do is learn when the buttons are
on whatever piece of gear that you're
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using ok so flashes only complicate when
we try to approach everything all at
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once it's true that there's a little bit
more to learn because now you're
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learning lighting and a different type
of technique versus natural light but
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it's gonna be well worth it it's not
good
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nearly as complicated as you think back
to lash can't look natural that is
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complete
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last look completely natural it also can
look super dramatic and unnatural if you
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will
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it's really just a matter of behind over
here we have six different portraits all
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these are designed to have a very
natural and subtle use of wash basin
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them so that really in looking at them
you wouldn't think that there anything
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other than either natural light or
simply reflector modified natural light
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but in actuality they all have been
flashed so flash can look as natural to
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want to again look as dramatic as he
wanted to when talking about that as we
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go to the workshop but don't think that
it can't look natural
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myth number three is that Flash is too
expensive and you know I can get that
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because most workshops as we talked
about start from that bottom-up approach
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where Mason they tell you to buy all
this year and all the light modifiers
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and everything that you possibly might
need for studio and off camera and an on
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camera and all that kind of stuff if you
did that you're in spending by of
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$10,000 and that is expensive and in
that saying that you don't go out and
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buy the best of you I'm vibrant color
just spending twenty thirty thousand
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dollars but it doesn't have to be that
way and what this workshop is designed
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to do is to teach you flash with an
on-camera flash and just simple like
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modification inexpensive reflectors that
way too accessible and approachable to
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everybody I mean most of you should
already have an on-camera flash if not
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please buy one because it is necessary
to have an on-camera flash everything
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else though is gonna be around anywhere
between 10 bucks for DIY solutions are
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going to showing you 20 bucks 30 bucks
almost all of the light modifiers
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overusing here are under 50 bucks or
well under fifty bucks with the
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exception of one thing and that is a
neutral density filter and there's going
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to be different levels of quality
they're gonna give you those can range
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between 200 and 300 dollars but again
one great neutral density filter is
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something that's fantastic to invest in
its gonna use quite a bit in your flash
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career and it's useful for a whole bunch
of purposes as well just in general to
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slow down or shutter speed but we'll
talk about that more later on
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but that item there is the only piece
that's going to be basically more than
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50 bucks everything else
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extremely inexpensive very accessible
and flashes not need to be expensive to
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get great results
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metaphor is that Flash is only meant for
the dark now it's true that if you want
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to you can go out at night time and can
use flatter broad diverse subjects you
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can see in the dark you need Flash to
brighten up your subject great flash me
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in the dark but is not just for that ok
hopefully you've already seen by now
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that we're using flash in the middle of
the day to overpower the Sun to create
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really dramatic shots with a great color
behind them we're also using flash in
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the mail today
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like for example in the shower we have a
beautiful natural light portrait we just
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use a little bit of flash to add some
light direction and change the light
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quality a tiny bit we use flash in our
studio to create the right type of light
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accent different features as you might
see in these athletic portraits here are
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mostly want to show off muscle
definition of the shower we shot it adds
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that crazy ads I not so much I have like
one he has like heat that's crazy
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ok here we're using it in a darker
scenes but this is still in the middle
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of the day it's under bridge and we
could shoot there with natural light is
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still bright not that she would
naturally we're just simply using Flash
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to overpower the existing light under
the bridge and create a very dramatic
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effect
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hopefully this video helped to connect
debunk some of the myths out there
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of what flash can and can be or what it
is it's too expensive it's too
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complicated and so forth is simply not
true
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most the time I found that these kind of
reasons and missed that exists around
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flash their created because the Tigers
are oftentimes they don't want to learn
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flash because maybe they're a little bit
lazy they don't want to get out there
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and actually practice and study it and
so forth
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where they might be intimidated by they
find it very challenging and so they'd
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rather stick with what they know either
way I want you guys to expand your
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vision of what flash can be and it's
just one of those additional tools in
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your talk it's gonna give you more
control more flexibility and regardless
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of what senior working within but we
talk about some of the challenges in the